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Background on Silvio O. Conte
Scope of collection
In the book Congress and Its Members Congressional scholars Roger Davidson and Walter Oleszek discuss the"dual nature of Congress," observing that"there really are two Congresses. One of these is Congress as a lawmaking institution - the Congress of textbooks, of how-a-bill-becomes-a-law...There is also a second Congress...it comprises men and women of diverse backgrounds...whose electoral fortunes depend less upon what Congress produces as an institution than upon the support and goodwill of voters hundreds of miles away."1 This duality is revealed throughout the Silvio O. Conte Congressional Papers - from the vast array of bill files, position papers, mark-ups for consideration, reports, and floor statements, to the constituent mail, Conte speeches delivered throughout the district, returned constituent questionnaires, and the hundreds of photographs of Conte with his constituents.
The Silvio O. Conte Congressional Papers, 1950-1991 document Conte's public service first as Massachusetts State Senator for the Berkshire District, 1950-1958 and primarily as representative for Massachusetts's First District in the United States Congress for 17 terms, 1959-1991, where he made significant contributions in the areas of health and human services, the environment, education, energy, transportation, and small business.
The collection comprises 575 linear feet of those files maintained by Conte and his staff in Washington, D.C. and in the two district offices in Pittsfield and Holyoke (most of which is casework with restricted access), including correspondence, speeches, press releases, bill files, his voting record, committee files, scrapbooks, travel files, audio-visual materials and over 5,000 photographs and slides. The papers have been divided into five subgroups delineating broad functional areas of a congressional office: Personal/Political/Official; Legislative; Press Relations/Media Activities; Constituent Services; Office Administration. Each subgroup has been further divided into series based on file format and type of activity documented. Detailed descriptions of each of these 27 series are included in this guide.
There are folder title lists - which serve as primary subject access to the materials - for each series, although several have been omitted from this guide because of excessive length. The series excluded are: Legislative Subject Files, General Subject Files, Bills Files and item-level lists of VIP Correspondence, Speeches, Press Releases, Audio-Visual materials, and Photographs. These lists are available to researchers in the Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.
The State Senator series (Subgroup I, Series 2), documents Conte's beginnings as a politician. Divided into speeches, correspondence, campaign and subject files spanning 1950-1958, this valuable series illustrates issues central to 1950s politics on the national and state level. Other early files of significance exist in the Travel series (I, 3) which feature Conte's handwritten notes and taped recordings with his personal accounts of the inspection tours of U.S. foreign aid programs in Africa and Southeast Asia during the 1960s that he participated in as a member of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee (see also Audio-Visual series, III, 6).
The bulk of the collection is contained in the two series identified as House Appropriations Committee Files (II, 3a-3m) and Legislative Subject/Correspondence files (II, 6a-6b). The Appropriations Committee Files reveal Conte's powerful position as ranking minority member of that committee from 1979-1991, a position that gave him a vote on all thirteen subcommittees. Although official committee records remain in Washington, D.C., housed in the Center for Legislative Archives, documentation of much of the work done by aides as they monitored the appropriations process and gathered information that Conte needed to make informed decisions remained within the collection. Although Conte served on the Small Business Committee from 1965-1991 and was very active in crafting legislation and providing vigorous support to small businesses in the First District, few files remain in this collection to document his influential role. Within the House Appropriations Committee Files, the Subcommittees on Interior and Health and Human Services are the largest of the subseries and cover areas in which Conte took a passionate personal interest and was an established leader in Congress.
The Health and Human Services Files (II, 3h.2) document Conte's largely successful efforts to continue full funding to the National Institutes of Health for biomedical research; and to support programs such as the low income home energy assistance program, (LIHEAP) and family planning centers in Western Massachusetts.
An ardent conservationist and outdoorsman, Conte fought for 10 years for passage of stringent acid rain legislation, and his efforts to clean up the Connecticut River and restore the Atlantic salmon to it are manifest in the Subcommittee on Interior Files (II, 3g). Within the General Budget subseries (II, 3a) are Conte's handwritten notes regarding periodic meetings (1983-1989) he attended at the White House with cabinet members, the Republican leadership, and the President as well as notes on his participation in the Budget Summits of 1987 and 1990. His attendance reveals his important position as ranking minority member of the Appropriations Committee and his recognized ability for bipartisan compromise.
While supporting most large-scale social spending requests, Conte established himself as a fiscal conservative in other areas. A colorful figure with a penchant for theatrics, his vocal denunciations sometimes took the form of satirical poems or pranks. The later years of his longstanding crusade to limit the size of farm subsidies are documented in the Subcommittee on Agriculture Files (II, 3i). The Energy and Water Subcommittee files (II, 3d) reveal his opposition to water projects such as the Garrison Diversion project in North Dakota and the Dickey-Lincoln Dam project, both of which he viewed as environmentally damaging boondoggles. The Department of Energy Files (II, 3h.2), a segment of the Subcommittee on Interior Files, document his efforts to kill the Synthetic Fuels Corporation which he had accused of"bankrolling the pet projects of the fat-cat oil barons."
The Legislative Subject/Correspondence Files (II, Series 6) reflect Conte's early assignments on the Treasury-Postal Service & Foreign Operations Subcommittees and contain mostly constituent correspondence and the office's response. Issues documented include the invasion of Cambodia, the Vietnam War, Watergate, the Civil Rights movement, communism, firearms control, abortion, the Equal Rights Amendment, oil import quotas, the energy crisis, and federal aid to education.
Davidson and Oleszek make the observation that"Members of Congress . . . depend upon the support of their electorate in order to serve. In turn, they are expected to understand and promote the views of constituents and to serve as their links with the federal government."2 Two sections of the collection that illustrate this reciprocity are the Press Relations/Media Activities and Constituent Services subgroups. Conte kept in touch with his constituents by mail, by public appearances, and by radio and television appearances. The Speeches, Press Releases, Radio and Television Transcripts, and Newsletters series document this function. Maintained by staff more carefully than most other parts of the collection, the series offer valuable synopses of Conte's political career.
A large portion of the Audio-Visual materials (III, Series 6) consists of audio recordings of Conte's weekly radio show. Most of the 16mm films consist of Conte's five minute television programs, often condensed versions of the radio show, which aired mainly during 1959, 1961 and 1967-1968. Included here is an audio recording of a 1958 testimonial dinner honoring Conte's election to Congress; a 1967 film of an interview with John W. Lederle, President of University of Massachusetts; and an audio recording of the 1987 fund raiser for the endowment of the Silvio O. Conte chair at the University of Massachusetts.
Research strategies should be formulated carefully and researchers should keep in mind that there is substantial overlap of topical coverage and information is widely dispersed throughout this large collection. A good example of this is Conte's fight against oil import quotas. Because New Englanders are highly dependent on oil for heating fuel the quotas adversely affect them by causing oil prices to rise. Conte began his vocal opposition in his first year in Congress when the Eisenhower administration instituted the quota system. He continued to fight for free trade with regard to oil throughout his career. Discussion of his continuing efforts can be found within the Floor Statements series in the form of a compilation by staff of all floor remarks Conte made regarding oil import quotas and fees spanning the years 1959-1984; this issue is also documented in the staff-compiled Oil Notebooks located in the Issue Books/Briefing Books series. His efforts to inform his constituents of his activities are reflected in the Speeches, Press Releases, Radio and Television Transcripts, and Newsletters. Documentation of the legislative initiatives he sponsored exist in the Bill Files, Voting Record, and all the way up to the 1990 Budget Summit notes filed in the Appropriations Committee Series, which document Conte's efforts to block Senator Lloyd Bentsen's proposal to reinstate the quotas to increase revenues. And finally, constituents' opinion on this topic can be found in the Legislative Subject/Correspondence Files and annual constituent questionnaires.
Aside from the study of legislation, public policy debates, and the relationship between Congressman and his constituents, the Conte Papers are a history of the times in which he served. Spanning four decades and eight presidents, the papers offer an extraordinary perspective on the major social, economic, and cultural changes experienced by the American people.
1. Davidson, Roger H. and Oleszek, Walter J., Congress and Its Members, 4th ed. (Washington, DC 1994)
2. Ibid.
This collection is organized as follows:
- Subgroup I. Personal/Political/Official
Subgroup II. Legislative
- Series 1. Voting Record
- Series 2. Bills of Legislation
Series 3. House Appropriations Committee Files:
- a. General Budget Files
- b. Subcommittee on Defense and Military Construction
- c. Subcommittee on the District of Columbia
- d. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
- e. Subcommittee on Foreign Operations
- f. Subcommittee on HUD, Independent Agencies
- g. Subcommittee on Interior
- h. Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education
- i. Subcommittee on Rural Development, Agriculture and Related Agencies
- j. Subcommittee on Transportation
- k. Subcommittee on Treasury, Postal Service, General Government
- l. Markup Books
- m. Correspondence
- Series 4. Floor Statements
- Series 5. Issue Books/Briefing Books
Series 6. Legislative Subject/Correspondence Files
- a. "7,000" Series, 1958-1979
- b. Legislative Issues, 1980-1991
- Subgroup III. Press Relations/Media Activities
Subgroup IV. Constituent Services
- Series 1. Constituent Mail/Issue Mail
- Series 2. Projects/Grant Files
- Series 3. Questionnaires
- Series 4. Service Academy Appointments
- Series 5. Case Files (restricted)
- Subgroup V. Office Administration/Office Staff Files
Collection inventory
The Biographical Files provide background on Conte's life and political career. This series has been artificially created by drawing from other series within the collection. Materials within folders in this series are arranged chronologically and include biographical sketches generated by aides; feature articles on Conte; transcripts of interviews; guest lists and notes regarding both of Conte's well-known annual celebrations the Labor Day Atlantic salmon party (1985-1989) and his birthday party (1983-1986) at the Botanical Gardens in Washington, D.C. There are also obituaries and several folders containing news clippings with substantive biographical content. This series contains a compilation of the famed rhymes he recited on the House floor and a few of his published writings. Tax returns from 1959 to 1975, and a few cards and notes from family members round out this key series.
The State Senate Files document Conte's eight-year tenure as a Massachusetts State Senator representing the Berkshire District. This series makes possible insight into Conte's formative years as a politician and public servant. The files reflect Conte's early involvement in what would become his major career interests: health and human services, education, the environment, and transportation. As a State Senator he served on more committees than had any other member of the state Legislature, and was the youngest legislator, in the history of the Commonwealth, to serve as chairman of the important Committee on Insurance.
This series documents his extensive involvement in legislative and investigative committees and his correspondence with constituents. Included in the nine boxes are campaign materials, correspondence, speeches, and subject files.
The one box of campaign materials is arranged in chronological order according to campaign year. Files for each campaign include addresses, correspondence with constituents and colleagues, newspaper clippings, endorsements, and campaign expenditures. Senator Conte's campaign addresses are particularly useful in revealing his political convictions as well as issues central to 1950s politics.
The four boxes of correspondence are the largest group of files within the State Senator series and reveal his diligent attention to his district's concerns and his dedication to serving his constituency. The correspondence, comprised of both incoming and outgoing letters, is almost entirely constituent-oriented with nearly one quarter of the correspondence consisting of general requests made by constituents, all of which were dutifully completed. The files are arranged both alphabetically by the name of the correspondent and by general subject.
Perhaps more than any other group of files in this series, Conte's speeches reveal his personality and opinions. Conte's speeches were candid, often humorous, and suggest that he was not afraid of difficult fights. The box of speeches is arranged in alphabetical order by subject or location of speech. Often folders contain more than one speech made on a single subject.
The subject files consist of three boxes and are arranged alphabetically. Each subject file contains an assortment of materials including correspondence, background material, newsclippings and Conte's handwritten notes. Most of the files pertain to legislation or committee activity. Prominent issues reflecting public sentiment during the 1950s McCarthyism, the Cold War and defense spending, unions, and the push for public works are recurring themes. During his years as a State Senator, Conte was particularly well known for his investigative work into mismanagement of union health and welfare trust funds; for authoring legislation establishing accident and health insurance for all state, city, town, and county employees, the first such law in the United States; and for introducing a bill outlawing communism in Massachusetts.
Also well documented in the subject files is his interest in the environment, evidenced in his work as chairman of the Conservation Committee and illustrated by his repeated efforts to obtain new state conservation and recreation areas.
His efforts to curb juvenile delinquency and his investigations of such health insurance agencies as Blue Cross and Blue Shield foretold his future vigorous support for health and social service programs in Congress. Conte also received attention for his vehement opposition to Governor Foster Furculo's proposal to establish the first sales tax in Massachusetts.
Included in the subject files are five folders of newsclippings provided by a newsclip service to which Conte subscribed. The clippings are extremely useful in obtaining background information on Conte's legislative and campaign activities.
The variety of subjects represented shows the diversity of Conte's interests, ranging from farming legislation to foreign affairs, and from an investigation of Gypsy Moths to authorship of a "Witches Bill" which exonerated the final eight victims of the Salem Witch Trials. Many topics represented in the subject files also appear in the State Senate speech files.
SEE ALSO: Crusade for Freedom
SEE ALSO: Tax, Sales
SEE ALSO: Youth Service Board
SEE ALSO: Pension Bills
SEE ALSO: Utilities, Public
SEE ALSO: Conservation Committee
SEE ALSO: Health and Welfare Trust Fund
The Travel Files is one of the few series in the collection to reveal at length Conte's own thoughts and impressions. These appear in the handwritten letters and taped recordings he sent to his staff while he traveled. This series contains itineraries, correspondence, background materials, transcripts of personal reports, newsclippings, press releases, thank-you notes, and speeches. The files are arranged chronologically and total two boxes.
Many of Conte's early trips stemmed from his service on the House Appropriations Committee and its Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. The trips were often inspection tours of America's foreign aid programs to developing nations. The most complete files concern Conte's six week tour of Africa and Europe in 1961, accompanied by his good friend and fellow committee member Robert Michel R-IL, and constitute nearly one-half of this series. Here Conte offers interesting commmentary on topics ranging from industrialization, agricultural practices, and political structures to descriptions of the climate and local customs. On that 1961 trip Conte made a stopover in Berlin. There he witnessed the flow of East German refugees into West Germany and the hardships endured by the German people as a result of the official separation of the city of Berlin by the construction of the Berlin Wall. His personal accounts of these events and others exemplify his concern for human rights and help to explain his strong support for well-funded foreign assistance programs to developing nations.
Although primarily known for his activism on the domestic front, Conte also played an international role by representing the United States when dealing with foreign leaders. His forays into diplomacy are documented in the China and Soviet Union files. The efforts of the Carter and Reagan administrations to improve Sino-American relationships are reflected in the files on the China Trips in 1977 and 1983. In 1985 Conte was a member of the first Congressional delegation to meet with the Soviet Union's leader Mikhail Gorbachev. As Tip O'Neill said in his eulogy of Conte: "I don't know how many places we went around the world together, but Sil could ask the leader of a nation the most pertinent question that would have taken a diplomat two years to ask. He could get to the point."
Conte occasionally made taped recordings while traveling and these audiotapes are included in the collection often accompanied by a typed transcript. The trip to Africa and Europe in 1961 is especially well documented with audiotapes and transcripts for nine different countries.Related material:
Additional series that document Conte's travels include the Speeches, Press Releases, Radio & TV Files, Newsletters, Photographs, and Audio-Visual Materials.
The VIP Correspondence series consists of three boxes of incoming correspondence designated by Conte or his staff for inclusion in a special "VIP" album. For preservation reasons all letters have been removed from the albums and placed in acid free folders.
Most frequent correspondents in the VIP series include: James A. Baker III, Charles E. Bennett, William Brock, Jimmy Carter, Lawrence Couglin, Elizabeth Dole, Michael Dukakis, Vic Fazio, Gerald Ford, Edward Kennedy, Robert Michel, James C. Miller III, Tip O'Neill, Leon Panetta, Ronald Reagan, Donald Regan, George Shultz, Olympia Snowe, David Stockman, and Jamie Whitten.
Although designated "VIP" by Conte's staff, many of the letters are routine they reflect the networking activities and daily interaction among members of Congress. There are notes thanking fellow members of Congress for small gifts (often home-state products), thank-yous for co-sponsorship of a bill or resolution, Dear Colleague letters, and occasionally a more substantive letter discussing an important national or local issue.
The preponderance of letters from such individuals as David Stockman, White House Budget Director; James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and Budget; and President Ronald Reagan document the major reworking the national budget sustained during the Reagan presidency and underscores the administration's need for Conte's cooperation as the ranking Republican on the House Appropriations Committee in order to implement "Reaganomics." These letters illustrate the growing urgency of the federal budget deficit as a potent political issue by the 1980s.Note:
An alphabetical index to letters is available in Special Collection and Archives Reading Room.
Over the course of 17 congressional elections Conte won both party nominations three times and ran unopposed eight times and often won elections by 70% of the vote or more. Full-fledged campaigns were seldom necessary.
The files for each campaign include Conte's official candidacy announcements, correspondence expressing support or congratulations to Conte, information on the Republican party campaign fundraisers and national platform, and Conte's campaign newspaper, The Conte Record.
The later campaign files (1978-1990) contain the so-called Issue Books, which were prepared by Conte's staff to provide detailed, factual summaries of Conte's recent (usually in the last Congress) legislative accomplishments and his stance on important campaign issues.Related material:
Other series that relate to campaigns include the Scrapbooks, Issue Books/Briefing Books, Biographical Files, and Speeches.
Files regarding Conte's first Congressional campaign in 1958 can be found in the State Senate series.
The 10 boxes in this series consist of accepted invitations and daily schedules. The original size of this series was reduced by sampling. Whenever possible daily and weekly summary sheets of Conte's appointments were retained. Arranged chronologically, this series reveals the sheer volume and diversity of requests made on the Congressman's time.
The 80 scrapbooks in this collection cover Conte's eight years in the State Senate as well as every year Conte was in Congress. Compiled by staff, the majority of the scrapbooks comprise news clippings in which Conte's name appears. There are also campaign scrapbooks from the years 1952, 1954, 1958, 1960 (2), 1964, 1968, 1970, 1974, 1976, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, topical scrapbooks on the 1976 Republican presidential primary, the 1976 election, the 1980 election, the Fall 1987 budget appropriations process and three scrapbooks documenting the annual congressional baseball game for the years 1973-1974 and 1977-1979.
There is a small amount of memorabilia contained in Series 8. Items include a model General Electric power transformer, a framed Treasury check payable to the University of Massachusetts, and House of Representatives cufflinks. There are numerous campaign pins, bumper stickers, and fliers.
A few of the many plaques and awards Conte received over the years can be found here as well. These have been listed below in chronological order.
The Voting Record contains printed summaries of Conte's votes in Congress. In addition to the record supplied each member by the House Clerk, this series also includes vote analyses supplied by special interest organizations such as the Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, and the Farmer's Union. From the 86th to 89th Congresses there are charts comparing Conte's vote with the votes of House and Senate leadership and the GOP; and from the 87th to 91st Congresses there are useful summaries that provide a synopsis of the bill's intent and the rationale for Conte's vote.
Beginning with the 99th and continuing through to the 102nd congress the more voluminous Clerk-produced "Legislative Activity Guides" replace the smaller Roll Calls. To supplement these guides there are "Legi-Slate" reports for the 98th and 99th congresses. These reports were obtained for members by the Congressional Research Service using a commercial on-line database and are simply a compilation of all votes by the congressman for that particular session, with a short explanation of the bill.
This series represents Conte's staff's efforts to maintain files on the bills sponsored or cosponsored by Conte. The bills are arranged in chronological order by Congress. Except for the first two Congresses in which Conte served the 86th and 87th covering the years 1959-1963, and the 96th and 97th Congresses which cover 1979-1982 each bill is in an individual folder and arranged by the assigned number.
Exceptions to the folder level arrangement include the 86th Congress, which consists of one folder containing a list of Conte sponsored legislation, and the 87th Congress, which consists of two folders for each session, each containing a list of Conte-sponsored legislation along with a printed bill. Other exceptions to folder level arrangement by bill number can be found in the 96th and 97th Congresses (1979-1982), which have computer generated "Legislative Profiles" produced by the House Office of the Clerk. The profiles summarize bills sponsored or cosponsored by Conte under broad topic.
The contents of the folders vary depending on which staff member maintained the files. Many of the files contain printed bills and drafts of bills, reports, statements, correspondence from constituents, members of congress and lobbyists, press releases, newsclippings and Congressional Record tear sheets; other files contain only a copy of the printed bill.
All types of legislative proposals: bills, both public and private; House Resolutions; House Joint Resolutions; and House Concurrent Resolutions are included and have been arranged in that order. Within each type the folders have been arranged numerically. There are numerous private bills interspersed among the public that pertain to individual matters, such as claims against the government, immigration and naturalization cases, and land titles.
Prominent issues reflect Conte's interests and committee assignments. There is much legislation in the areas of small business, farm subsidy reforms, social security, medicare, clean air and conservation, energy issues especially concerning oil import quotas and trade.
There is overlap within the collection and other series that are likely to have information supplementary to this series include the Legislative Subject/Correspondence Files, Floor Statements and Appropriations Committee Files.Note:
The complete folder-title list for this series has not been included in this guide owing to its great length. It is available in the Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room.
Series 3, House Appropriations Committee Files, consists of the files created and maintained by the minority staff assistants who helped Conte to meet the responsibilities of his position as ranking minority member of the Appropriations Committee.
This series does not fully cover Conte's Appropriations Committee activities. Prior to Conte becoming ranking minority member in 1979, most appropriations-related materials were filed by his staff in the Legislative Subject/Correspondence files.
The files span the 1970s through 1991, and contain documentation of many of Conte's favorite issues and important legislative initiatives. In addition to a subseries for each subcommittee, there are also subseries for General Budget Files, Correspondence, and Markup Books.
Several of the subseries have been further divided. The Interior Subcommittee files have been subdivided into four segments: Acid Rain files, Department of Energy files, Migratory Bird Conservation Commission (MBCC), and Tim Shea Subject Files. The Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Subcommittee files have been further divided into Health and Human Services (HHS) files and Education and Labor files and the one box of materials on the Joint Commission on the Coinage has been placed under Treasury-Postal Service Subcommittee files.
There are no files on the Legislative Subcommittee or the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, State and Judiciary.
The General Budget Files represent files not directly related to any one subcommittee but created as a result of Conte's leadership role and expertise in the appropriations process.
Subseries 3l, Markup Books, consists of the background information compiled by staffers in their effort to monitor Subcommittee Appropriations bills. The typical markup book consists of a looseleaf binder containing budget justification tables, correspondence from lobbying groups, committee recommendations, report language, and floor statements.
Subseries 3m, two boxes, Appropriations Correspondence, consists of copies of minority staff assistants' outgoing correspondence, filed by the name of the staff member within chronological periods.
The files have been arranged chronologically except for the last box, which contains the Budget Summit notes for 1987, 1990, and the White House Notes, 1983-1989.Contents:
These files cover general appropriations issues not related to specific subcommittee bills. This includes Office of Management and Budget proposals and overviews, deficit reduction agreements and supplemental and urgent appropriations bills. Notable files in this series include Conte's notes (some with accompanying typed transcripts prepared by office staff) on the meetings he attended as a participant in the Budget Summits of 1987 and 1990. The summits called together cabinet members, leadership in congress, and the president to work out solutions to the budget deficit crisis. Some of the notes have typed transcripts to accompany them. Also of interest are typed transcripts of his notes taken during meetings at the White House spanning 1983-1989. Though other topics were discussed in the White House meetings, topics predominantly pertained to budget issues.Related material:
Related series include VIP Correspondence and Scrapbooks.
Files for both subcommittees are combined because the files were maintained by the same individual, contain similar subject matter, and were kept in the same physical space. The folders are filed alphabetically under "Appropriations Bills," then chronologically by fiscal year.Contents:
The files for both the defense and military construction subcommittees of the House Appropriations Committee were maintained by minority staff assistant George Allen, and later by Charles (Chinch) Wollerton and by legislative assistant Patrick Larkin.
Materials in this series are typically correspondence from contractors, constituents, and government agencies, Dear Colleague letters, and internal memos, and especially reflect First District concerns. District defense industries from large General Electric and Smith & Wesson to small Kollmorgen sought Conte's support, as did local defense installations like Westover AFB. From national concerns like Arms Control, SDI ("Star Wars") and the MX Missile to First District controversy over noise from Westover Air Force Bases's C-5A transport planes or the proposed construction of two unpopular communications systems (one in Amherst, the other in Hawley). This series reveals Conte's interest in and influence over defense issues most significantly through the appropriations process.
SEE ALSO: MX Missile
This series contains legislative materials relating to Conte's place on the District of Columbia Appropriations Subcommittee. Part of a group of appropriations subcommittee files maintained by Tim Shea, they have been segregated to reflect the work of the individual subcommittee. Although supplemental appropriations bills are all-encompassing, that is, not tied to individual subcommittees, supplemental issues relating only to District of Columbia appropriations have been included in this series.
The files relating to the Subcommittee on Energy and Water of the House Appropriations Committee contain materials relating to passage of specific appropriation bills and supplementals as well as to subjects of both one-time and ongoing interest. These subjects include the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA), which provided federally funded employment through energy and water related projects and the Conte-sponsored "Buy American" provisions for government procurement contracts, particularly aimed at helping General Electric obtain contracts to provide generating equipment to hydroelectric plants. (Files related to JTPA can also be found in the L-HHS-ED Subcommittee files, Labor and Education subseries.) The appropriations bills are arranged chronologically by fiscal year and subject files follow in alphabetical order.
Also of interest are several files on individual hydroelectric projects, notably the Garrison project in North Dakota and the Dickey-Lincoln Lakes School project in northern New England, which illustrate Conte's efforts to balance clean energy production with the potentially devastating consequences of dam building to wetlands, conservation areas, and wildlife. Conte's dual concern for environmental and fiscal issues is also apparent in his opposition to the Clinch River breeder reactor and the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) projects. Many of the projects overseen and funded by the Subcommittee on Energy and Water were once the province of the now defunct Subcommittee on Public Works. For this reason some material in these files, generated during the latter part of the 1970s, may seem out of place here. Another issue outside the province of the Subcommittee on Energy and Water is the Synfuels debate. This Department of Energy issue relates to the Interior Subcommittee. Nevertheless, several folders of Synfuels material appear in this series.
In general, these files consist of materials relating directly to markup and passage of appropriations bills, including (but not limited to) floor statements, hearing materials, amendments, conference notes, staff memos and correspondence from colleagues, constituents and lobbying groups. Subject files contain correspondence of the types just mentioned, staff memos, newsclippings, and some printed materials from lobbying groups.
There is also material relating to First District projects funded by the energy and water appropriations bill in the Project/Grant Series.
SEE ALSO: Water Resources Development Act of 1979
SEE ALSO: Souris Valley
SEE ALSO: "Buy American"
The files in this series document Conte's role as ranking minority member of the House Appropriations Committee, his position as an ex officio member of the Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, and his commitment to human rights.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title, the files include correspondence, memoranda, news clippings, and legislative reference material. Much of the correspondence, and most of the policy research, was conducted by Jim Fairchild, minority staff assistant, Subcommittee on Foreign Operations, 1980-1990; Bob Goudie, Conte's legislative assistant from 1983-1987, who was extensively involved in the formulation of Conte's policies regarding Central America; and Ed Gresser, legislative assistant to the Congressman in 1989.
Conte's interest in foreign affairs can be attributed to, in part, his service on the Foreign Operations Appropriations Subcommittee in the 1960s. During that time he undertook a number of trips through Africa. (Files related to these subjects can be found in the Legislative Correspondence/Subject Files, Travel Files and Audio-Visual materials).
The files most often deal with problems within Africa, the Soviet Union, and Central American countries and cover a variety of issues including world hunger, human rights, refugees, international debt, trade and tariffs.
A large number of files in this series concern foreign aid appropriations. Other files concern human rights issues of interest and concern to Conte, unrelated to appropriations. Still others represent a synthesis of appropriations and human rights issues, such as those instances in which funding or aid is tied to human rights records. Of particular interest are the files on Conte's involvement in funding for the government of El Salvador and the Nicaraguan rebels. The Congressman often took positions on these issues that opposed the positions of the Republican administration. His commitment to fighting for human rights is demonstrated by his involvement in a number of cases concerning individuals such as Argentinean journalist Jacob Timmerman and ethnic groups such as Soviet Jewry and starving populations in Sub-Saharan Africa.
SEE ALSO: Pease-Conte Trade Bill
Congressman Conte championed the interests of his district by seeking funding for First District projects in the appropriations phase, and represented those interests as an intermediary between constituents and the bureaucracy once a grant application was filed or a project under way.
The HUD subcommittee files document Conte's efforts, through his influence on the appropriations committee, to strengthen the economy of Western Massachusetts and to assist the elderly and low-income residents of Western Massachusetts through a myriad of housing and community development grants. Most of the files in this six box subseries relate to the appropriations of monies for programs such as Urban Development Action Grants (UDAG), Housing Development Action Grants (HODAG), Community Development Block Grants, funding for public works projects, housing for the elderly, and other HUD-related grants.
The contents here include correspondence, memoranda, news clippings, legislative reference materials, notes, speeches, and federal grant applications. The files are arranged alphabetically by folder title. Most of the files are under the first town or city for which the project was intended. There are also several files relating to the annual HUD-IA appropriations bill.
As a long-time supporter of public housing, Conte was extensively involved in procuring federally funded, low-income housing projects and developments in his district. As a result, he often found himself in the position of being a mediator between low-income constituents in need of affordable housing and those constituents who were opposed to housing projects in their neighborhood. Towns most often mentioned are: Pittsfield, Holyoke, Northampton, Greenfield, and North Adams.
Congressman Conte's interest in the environment and his concern for the homeless are evident in his legislative and constituent correspondence regarding the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), two of the several independent agencies within the HUD subcommittee's jurisdiction. There are several files regarding EPA projects in the First District, most of which relate to water pollution control and wastewater treatment. Other independent agencies represented in these files include the Veterans Administration, NASA, and the National Science Foundation.
The staff members most frequently represented in correspondence and memoranda are Gayl Mileszko and Mary Silveira, with assistance from Peter Gossens, James Ogsbury and James Kulikowski, all minority staff assistants.
Researchers should note that many subjects are to be found in a mixture of Appropriations Bills, Independent Agency, and First District Town or City files. This is due to the fact that many projects, such as a sewage treatment plant, may be requested by a town, funded by a HUD grant, and monitored by the EPA.
The Interior files are arranged with five boxes of appropriation bills first, followed by eight boxes of subject files. The bills files have been arranged by fiscal year. Within a given fiscal year an Interior Appropriations bill can be tracked from bureau and departmental requests through subcommittee and full committee markup, to floor action and conference committee. The amount of information available within a given fiscal year varies considerably. The subject files are arranged alphabetically.Contents:
The subject files reveal Conte's interest in environmental and conservation issues. Subjects of national importance include Antarctic preservation, wetlands acquisition, prevention of development of Matagorda Island, Texas, the last untouched barrier island and home of the whooping crane, and other National Wildlife Refuges, and the North American Waterfowl Conservation Act. Issues more specifically related to Interior concerns in Massachusetts' First District include the files on the restoration of the Atlantic salmon and striped bass to the Connecticut River through projects like the Northeast Anadromous Fish Lab in Turners Falls and the Sunderland holding station, obtaining federal Clean Water Act funds for Massachusetts, and Appalachian Trail relocation plans for the Berkshire County towns of Tyringham and Sheffield. For his many years of hard work and dedication to preserving the environment he was honored by many environmental organizations including the Sierra Club and the Audubon Society.
Despite Conte's interest in environmental and interior issues, he served only as an ex officio member of the Subcommittee on Interior, a position granted by his status as ranking minority member.
In general, these files consist of materials relating directly to markup and passage of appropriations bills, including (but not limited to) floor statements, hearing materials, amendments, conference notes, staff memos and correspondence from colleagues, constituents and lobbying groups. Subject files contain correspondence of the types just mentioned, staff memos, and newsclippings. From 1985-1991, the Interior Subcommittee files were maintained by Tim Shea, minority staff assistant for the Interior subcommittee and primary staff member represented in these files.
Although supplemental appropriations bills are all-encompassing, that is, not tied to individual subcommittees, supplemental issues relating only to Interior matters have been included in this series.
There are four subseries of the Interior Subcommittee files: Acid Rain, Department of Energy, Migratory Bird Conservation Commission, and Tim Shea General Subject Files.


text: This class will focus on a broad range of artists who are not generally recognized as central to the history of art in the 20th century, yet who have nevertheless had a major impact on its evolution. These artists have been classified variously through conceptual frames such as Folk Art, Art Brut, Outsider Art, and Self-Taught Art, and in addition to surveying the work of these artists, we will consider these classifications, and the underlying assumptions on which they are based. We will also consider the boundaries between these art practices and Fine Art, and ways that these boundaries are maintained by the institutional art-world. In doing so, we will consider broader issues regarding creativity, marginality, art, and culture.

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As pure, abstract small farming pleasure, for me so far, catalog season can't be beat. This year's catalogs started arriving two or three weeks ago. The first from one of my main seed suppliers has been here only a couple of days, and I've started flipping pages and poring over … [Read more...] about Catalog season
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The Drive Shed
Finally got the tiny tractors in out of the weather. The diesel Kubota took hours and some warming and recharging to get started (I should've put 'em in sooner, but I wasn't believing in the COLD). You can just make out the John Deere riding mower, parked sideways and in for the … [Read more...] about The Drive Shed
Finally finished a bit of hot pepper harvest, now there's a convenient pile of dried heat! A few weeks ago, wondering whether to cover for frost, I decided to also pull up some hot pepper plants, roots and all, instead. An experiment! We loaded about 20 of the Cayenne Long Slim … [Read more...] about Heat!
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Here's the Extended Milkhouse, looking pretty much as it did in mid-February last winter, a couple of months ahead of schedule. This time last year, it was still a dreary shell; we didn't finish up until January. It serves as a seedling room in spring, for overnight harvest … [Read more...] about Farming from inside…


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October 30, 2009 (CHICAGO) --A food service worker at the Cook County Jail is accused of bringing drugs into the jail. Ivan Garcia of Huntley is charged with possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.
He's accused of conspiring with an undercover officer to smuggle marijuana into the jail to give to an inmate.
Garcia works for a company that's contracted to provide food services at the Cook County Jail.


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Wicked and twisted . See through the eyes of the far more sinister . Unfold to face the wolves . This day I cast no shadows . Something unseen always a step behind me . Black tears cannot be divided . Beat them at every turn . Nothing burns like a hurt for money . Trade love / life for dividends . In the end inherit nothing . I wish pain upon this city . Old word hold no meaning . I unfold to face myself . Laugh at those who laugh at the dead . The night air chokes through ghosts of businessmen . "Do not sell all you are for all you think you see, my pretties" . There is no final word . As long as you breathe . There is no final verse . As long as you live...
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Local Courts Authorized to Create Mental Health Courts
For many defendants, repeated criminal behavior is a symptom of an underlying mental disability. Local judges and probation officers have struggled to craft elaborate probation orders that address the illness as well as the discipline and safety concerns inherent in any criminal case. But starting in 2014, judges and defendants will have another option.
At the end of 2013, the Michigan Legislature authorized the formation of local mental health courts. Like the drug courts that currently exist in Berrien County and elsewhere, these courts would allow defendants with serious mental illness, serious emotional disturbance or developmental disability, or whose substance abuse is connected with those disabilities, to complete probation including intensive mental health treatment and by doing so avoid conviction or reduce their potential sentence.
Under the new statutes, a defendant charged with a non-violent offense can enter a plea and submit to a screening and mental health evaluation. Based on that evaluation, the judge may accept the defendant into the mental health court. If the judge doesn't send the defendant to the program, then he or she is allowed to withdraw the plea and nothing that was said in the evaluation regarding drugs or alcohol can be used against him or her at trial.
Once in the program, the defendant will be provided individual, comprehensive treatment and community services including mental health and substance abuse treatment, education, and vocational assistance. On the other hand, the defendant is required to complete all terms of probation, treatment, drug and alcohol tests, and pay fines, costs, fees, and medical treatment expenses (unless doing so would be a financial hardship or interfere with treatment).
If everything goes as planned, the defendant's charge could be dismissed if the he or she qualifies for one of several second-chance statutes. But if dismissal is not an option, sentencing will still take into account the defendant's cooperation and success in the program. If the defendant does not complete the program, the failure cannot be held against him or her at sentencing.
Local mental health courts provide structure and options to defendants and courts trying to manage mental illness that causes or impacts his or her mental health difficulties. However, whether each court decides to implement this option remains to be seen. If you need help with criminal charges, call Attorney Peter J. Johnson at 269-982-1100 for a consultation.
*Please note: Every case is different, and there may be some aspect of your particular case which may result in an outcome other than is described above. This post is not intended as legal advice and may not apply to your particular case. It is always best to contact our office for a consultation if you have been or believe you may be charged with a crime.


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Did you make New Year's resolutions for 2016?
We came across a list recently of the most popular resolutions made (and broken) every year. You can probably guess what they are without even clicking through, but it got us thinking: maybe what we need isn't more willpower to follow through on our resolutions, but a new angle altogether. What if instead of focusing on losing 10 pounds in 2016, we focused instead on cutting the excess weight from our businesses? And what if that actually helped us lose 10 pounds after all?
There's some evidence to suggest that struggle begets struggle, which means that if we're having trouble reaching a goal in a certain area, we're probably struggling similarly in other areas. What does that mean? If we want to lose weight, we might reach that goal not by signing up for a gym membership, but by finding ways to trim the fat from our professional lives.
Does that make any sense at all? Worth a shot? Let's do it. Here are some New Year's resolutions for our businesses (that might just help out in other areas of our lives, too!):
January is a good time to think about all the areas of our businesses that are looking a little too plump. We're not talking bank accounts, of course, but how's your paperwork looking lately? Are your meetings as efficient and productive as they could be? Have you consolidated all those sticky notes into a manual yet?
The above are just three areas where we help clients to "trim the fat" from their businesses…and they're three areas that we're focusing on for 2016, too! Let's do it together.
I (Dean) actually had a professor once who lost 10 pounds by following the guidelines in the ISO 9001. Talk about crossover application!
The construction and safety industries come with a lot of paperwork. This isn't news to anyone, but it may be news to you that we can help you cut back significantly on your business's paperwork. That stack sitting beside you right now? We can eliminate most of it with electronic systems and personalized processes that will make your life easier (starting immediately).
This is a metaphor for feeding your business with quality ingredients—from systems and personnel to opportunities and training. We can't run a marathon on Cheetos fuel, and our businesses can't flourish long-term if we're not investing in them. Are there any quality inputs you've been holding off on implementing? How can you get them going in 2016?
You guys tell us often that we reduce your stress by taking important (but time-consuming) tasks off your plate. Thank you; that's always our goal! We'd love to hear about the things that are stressing you out in your business lately, and we can almost guarantee we'll have a solution you hadn't yet thought of.
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APRIL 2009 - Sears Holdings Corporation Renews at Major Distribution Center
Ontario, CA –
Dedeaux Properties LLC (www.dedeauxproperties.com) is pleased to announce the renewal of
long-standing client Sears Holdings Corporation in Ontario, CA, at its approximate 823,000 sq. ft
facility in Ontario, CA.
Constructed as part of the 1.3 million square foot Dedeaux Inland Empire Park in 1994, the
property was a build-to-suit for Sears serving as their west coast appliance distribution center. At
the time of construction, the facility was one of largest distribution facilities ever constructed in
the state beginning an era of "mega" distribution centers as overseas manufacturing and resulting
increase in trade through the ports lead to a boom in growth of similar type facilities in the
Dedeaux Properties, LLC. was founded by legendary and colorful baseball coach and business icon
Rod Dedeaux. Coach Dedeaux's exploits on the baseball diamond have been well-documented and
he was best known for leading the University of Southern California to 11 National Championships,
coaching two Olympic teams in 1964 and 1984, and being named College Baseball Coach of the
Century. However, Mr. Dedeaux also used his abundance of energy and business acumen to found
the transportation and warehousing firm, Dart, in 1938 which grew over the years to a nationwide
logistics firm offering third party facility management, warehousing, e-commerce fulfillment and
transportation with over 1,000 employees.
Over the past 60 years, Mr. Dedeaux and his management team began acquiring industrial properties
for the use by the company. As the company evolved and needs changed, Dart began to lease a
portion of its buildings to key customers as it acquired additional buildings to suit the needs of a
growing enterprise.
As the years progressed, many customers and tenants began requesting newer or larger facilities in
different locations and Dedeaux Properties was formed… always based on servicing the needs of its
True to its history, Dedeaux Properties has continued to construct and/or acquire buildings for many
of its customers. And the business has progressed into speculative development and sale/leaseback
opportunities in order to continue to grow the business.
For further information please contact:
Jim Moore
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Six South Carolinians are among the record-breaking 214 federal inmates who received commutations from President Barack Obama on Wednesday.
Federal inmates from Columbia, Saluda, Hartsville, Kershaw, Laurens and Cameron received commutations
"Altogether, I've commuted more sentences than the past nine presidents combined, and I am not done yet," Obama wrote in a Facebook post. "Too many men and women end up in a criminal justice system that serves up excessive punishments, especially for nonviolent drug offenses."
The president has used his constitutional clemency power to reduce the sentences of 562 people since he has been in office, according to the White House. That is indeed more than the past nine presidents combined, and it surpasses the previous single-day record of 151 commutations, set by Franklin Roosevelt in 1935.
This is a country that believes in second chances.
President Barack Obama, Facebook post
Of the six South Carolinians, four will have their sentences shortened to expire this Dec. 1. Most of them were sentenced for minor drug offenses. Their offenses also include possession of a firearm during a drug trafficking crime, possessing a firearm as a felon and possessing a firearm with obliterated serial numbers.
Two others had their life sentences reduced.
Lloyd Battles of Columbia, South Carolina, was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2002 for conspiracy with intent to distribute 50 grams or more of cocaine base, and aiding and abetting. He will serve 240 months instead.
562 Commutations granted by President Barack Obama, more than the past nine presidents combined
Another South Carolinian sentenced to life in prison, Timothy Adams of Hartsville, had his sentence commuted to 360 months. He has been in prison since 1995 for conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute cocaine base.
On Wednesday, Obama shared a picture of a letter he'd received from a Florida inmate who was sentenced to life without parole for a nonviolent drug charge.
"Even the judge couldn't believe he was bound by law to hand down a punishment that didn't fit the crime," he said. "We know that (his) story is all too common in this country – a country that imprisons its citizens at a rate far higher than any other."
He said that although acts of clemency, such as pardons and commutations, could give some people second chances, the real challenge lay in overhauling the criminal justice system.
In 2014, Obama sought to bring attention to what his administration describes as oversentencing in federal prisons by directing the Justice Department to prioritize petitions for commutations from nonviolent offenders who were serving longer sentences than they would receive today if they were convicted of the same crimes.
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The former Marsh Hometown Market at 1301 S. E St. sits vacant on the afternoon of Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. (Photo: Mickey Shuey/Palladium-Item)
The now-closed Marsh store at 1301 S. E St. was sold during a Wayne County Sheriff Sale to Wells Fargo bank. The sale price was $1,288,511.75, and the bank was the sole bidder on the property.
The 14,730-square-foot building was home to a Marsh grocery store until it closed in March 2017; it has sat vacant since the closure. The location was shuttered amid mounting financial issues for the now-defunct regional grocer.
The last remaining Marsh store in Richmond, 501 National Road W., is now called Needler's, after it was bought with several others by Ohio-based grocer Fresh Encounter.
Editor, John C. DePrez Jr.; Executive Editor, Carol Rogers; Publishers: IBRC and IAR


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AWS services or capabilities described in AWS Documentation may vary by region/location. Click Getting Started with Amazon AWS to see specific differences applicable to the China (Beijing) Region.
Creates or updates a destination. A destination encapsulates a physical resource (such as an Amazon Kinesis stream) and enables you to subscribe to a real-time stream of log events for a different account, ingested using PutLogEvents. Currently, the only supported physical resource is a Kinesis stream belonging to the same account as the destination.
Through an access policy, a destination controls what is written to its Kinesis stream.
By default,
PutDestination does not set any access policy with the destination,
which means a cross-account user cannot call PutSubscriptionFilter against
this destination. To enable this, the destination owner must call PutDestinationPolicy
For .NET Core and PCL this operation is only available in asynchronous form. Please refer to PutDestinationAsync.
Namespace: Amazon.CloudWatchLogs
Assembly: AWSSDK.CloudWatchLogs.dll
Version: 3.x.y.z
public virtual PutDestinationResponse PutDestination( PutDestinationRequest request )
Container for the necessary parameters to execute the PutDestination service method.
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|Multiple requests to update the same resource were in conflict.
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Supported in: 4.5, 4.0, 3.5
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Simplified Collection for Parts of a Volcano, River, Mountain and GlacierPreschool
Montessori believed the best way to teach these concepts was to use the real things with a model or photographs to look as real as possible. This series is unique in that the illustrations are actually beautiful, full color photographs of the real object. Each simplified set includes photograph cards, labels and control cards. Over 150 cards are included in this series including: Parts of a River, Parts of a Mountain, Parts of a Glacier and Parts of a Volcano. The following terms are included in the glacier set: glacier, mouth, cirque, crevasse, moraine, tongue, erratic and serac. The following terms are included in the river set: river, cataract, confluence, source, bed, bank, channel, course, mouth, tributary and rapids. The following terms are included in the volcano set: volcano, cone, crater, magma basin, pumice, volcanic ash, eruption, conduit or vent, secondary conduit and secondary cone. The following terms are included in the mountain set: peak, summit, slope, face, base, crest, pass, block mountain, volcanic mountain and a fold mountain. Ships:
- printed on quality 100% post consumer recycled white card stock ready for you to trim and laminate yourself
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Escape Rooms & Tabletop Games
237 N. Main St. ~ Sheridan, Wyoming
EScape Rooms
Your team of 3-7 people will have up to 60 minutes to hunt for clues and solve a series of puzzling challenges in one of our themed adventure rooms.
Wed-Sun, 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Advance booking required.
Tabletop GamEs
Pick up the latest board, card, or role-playing game and accessories. We take special orders, and have dozens of games to rent. Or just hang out and play games from our library for free.
Thurs / Fri / Sat, 1:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Most events have a $5 fee, which gets you $5 in store credit! This fee is waived if you've never attended an event before.
Demos are always free. In addition, free open play is available during store hours if no events are going on.
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Investing in college readiness at urban elementary and middle school levels is one of the most important tasks that educators can make. Contemporary educators, policymakers and parents have questioned the efficacy of schools serving primarily minority and low-income students. For far too long, the prevailing narrative that surrounds the schooling experiences of minority and low-income students has been dominated by tales of academic failure, behavioral problems, disengaged parents, and abandonment by civic institutions and organizations. Sadly, many teachers, students, and parents have accepted the widespread belief that minority and low-income means academic failure and behavior problems.
Topics: Student Expectations, Culture, Grit
Grit. Growth mindset. Perseverance. Stick-to-it-ivness. These buzz words have had their share of time in the limelight as of late. Grit is defined at perseverance and a passion for long term goals. Researchers have identified that grit can be more predictive of success than characteristics such as IQ. Similarly, a growth mindset is defined as the belief in one's ability to increase one's capacity to learn and solve problems.
Topics: Growth Mindset, Student Expectations, Grit, Teaching and Learning